Reformed Anglicans

5 September 1569 A.D. Bishop Edmund “Bloody” Bonner Died—Served as 94 th & 96 th Bishop of London; Deprived; Died in Marshalea Prison, London Editors. “Edmund Bonner.” Tudor Place. N.d. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/EdmundBonner.htm .   Accessed 12 Feb 2015. Edmund BONNER (Bishop of London) Born: ABT 1500 Died: 5 Sep 1569, Marshalsea Buried: St George's, Southwark , England Father: George SAVAGE Mother: Elizabeth FRODSHAM Born ABT 1500, was perhaps the natural son of George Savage , rector of Davenham, Cheshire, by Elizabeth Frodsham , who was afterwards married to Edmund Bonner , a sawyer of Hanley in Worcestershire. Educated at Broadgates Hall, now Pembroke College, Oxford, graduating bachelor of civil and canon law in Jun 1519. He was ordained about the same time, and admitted DCL in 1525. In 1529 he was Wolsey 's chaplain, and he was with the Cardinal at Cawood at the time of his arrest. Subsequently he w...

5 September 1569 A.D.   Bishop Edmund “Bloody” Bonner Dies in Marshalea Prison, London Editors. “Edmund Bonner.”   Encyclopedia Britannica. N.d. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/73155/Edmund-Bonner .   Accessed 11 Feb 2015.   Edmund Bonner,   Bonner also spelled Boner (born c. 1500—died Sept. 5, 1569,  London , Eng.), bishop of London who supported Henry VIII’s antipapal measures but rejected the imposition of Protestant doctrine and worship during the reigns of Edward VI and Elizabeth I . For centuries Bonner, on the basis of evidence from his contemporary, the Protestant martyrologist John Foxe , was characterized as a monster who enjoyed burning Protestants at the stake during the reign of the Roman Catholic Mary I . Bonner became an outstanding Oxford lawyer, and from 1532 to 1543 he served Henry VIII on various foreign embassies, including several to Pope Clement VII to plead for an annulment of Henry’s marriage to ...